Ezekiel 7:21
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New International Version (©2011)
I will give their wealth as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will give it as plunder to foreigners, to the most wicked of nations, and they will defile it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will hand these things over to foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'll give it as plunder into the control of strangers and as the spoils of war to the wicked who will invade the land to profane it.

NET Bible (©2006)
I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world's wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will hand their jewels over to foreigners as loot and to the most evil people on earth as prizes. These foreigners will dishonor the people of Israel.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil; and they shall pollute it.

American King James Version
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

American Standard Version
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.

Darby Bible Translation
And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

English Revised Version
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

World English Bible
I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:16-22 Sooner or later, sin will cause sorrow; and those who will not repent of their sin, may justly be left to pine away in it. There are many whose wealth is their snare and ruin; and the gaining the world is the losing of their souls. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. The wealth of this world has not that in it which will answer the desires of the soul, or be any satisfaction to it in a day of distress. God's temple shall stand them in no stead. Those are unworthy to be honoured with the form of godliness, who will not be governed by its power.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - I will give it. The "it" refers to the silver and gold, the "beauty of the ornaments" thus desecrated in their use. The strangers, i.e. the Chaldean invaders, should in their turn pollute (better, with the Revised Version, profane it) by making it their prey. For them the idols which Israel had worshipped would be simply as booty to be plundered.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,.... The Babylonians, who lived in a foreign country, and were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel; the temple was suffered of the Lord to fall into their hands as a prey; who spoiled it of all its riches and glory, and carried away the vessels of gold, of silver, and of brass, and other valuable things; see Jeremiah 52:17;

and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; meaning the same persons, and the same thing, and the same use they should make of it; for not the wicked of the world in general are meant, but of the land, or this land; the land of Babylon, where the prophet was:

and they shall pollute it; by entering into it and spoiling it, by pillaging and burning it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

21. strangers—barbarous and savage nations.

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The Desolation of Israel
…20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. 21And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. …

2 Kings 24:13 As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD.
Psalm 74:2 Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed-- Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
Psalm 109:11 May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
Jeremiah 19:13 The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth--all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.'"
Jeremiah 52:13 He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
Ezekiel 31:12 and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.